Re: Is it possible to link an xcel file to Tab content?

How do you want it linked? Regards, Mike Lazarus Well, Lets say I have an excel sheet containing a list of which clients own widgets, and more specifically, which widget brand and type they own. In ACT, I have a tab called "Products". I would like to add a link (or a file attachment of) to that spreadsheet, in that products tab. Can that be done?

Re: Is it possible to link an xcel file to Tab content?

You could use the Documents TabYou could create a Group, link the Excel file there and link the ContactsYou could create a field on a tab as a URL and enter something like one of these:file://C:\folderpath\sheetname.xlsfile://machinename\pathc\file.xls

Re: Is it possible to link an xcel file to Tab content?

GLComputing wrote:You could use the Documents TabYou could create a Group, link the Excel file there and link the ContactsYou could create a field on a tab as a URL and enter something like one of these:file://C:\folderpath\sheetname.xlsfile://machinename\pathc\file.xls

That would be great. What kind of filed would I use? If it's a URL, wouldn't it need to be in HTM? I'm not that literate in creating these types of things... Is there a "how to" on this subject?

Re: Is it possible to link an xcel file to Tab content?

GLComputing wrote:A URL field starting with file: will find any local file and open it with whatever the file extension is associated with

Yep. I guess I just dont get it. I defined a new field and selected the URL option in the drop down choices. When I attempted to enter a description that includes ; or // any symbols to create the path, I get an error message that says "invalid symbols"

Oh well. Thanks for your help. I need to find an ACT consultant locally to help me with this and a few other layout issues.